10.7907/4H2F-WJ87
Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi
Jake Herschel Lebi
Rochman
0000-0002-8475-3389
California Institute of Technology
Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions
California Institute of Technology
2022
Dissertation
photonic crystal cavity
Electrical Engineering
superconducting cavity
rare earth ions
microwave-to-optical transduction
quantum light-matter interfaces
Kavli Nanoscience Institute
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
2022-05-20
English
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Superconducting qubits that operate at microwave frequencies are one of the most promising platforms for quantum information processing. However, connecting distant processors with microwave photons is challenging since microwave photons suffer from thermal noise and large propagation losses in room temperature components.
Conversely, optical photons within the telecommunications band are known to have extremely low loss in optical fiber and the thermal noise is minuscule at room temperature. In order to interface superconducting qubits with room temperature optical photons, a quantum transducer is required that can convert photons between microwave and optical frequencies.
This thesis describes the development of a microwave-to-optical transducer using an ensemble of erbium ions, doped within a yttrium orthovanadate crystal, that are simultaneously coupled to a superconducting microwave resonator and a photonic crystal optical resonator. The erbium ions have spin transitions that couple to the microwave resonator and optical transitions at telecom wavelengths that couple to the optical resonator.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
PGSD3 - 502844 - 2017
U.S. Army Research Office
W911NF1810011